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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as "the best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning eight. She has also received two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards.

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2026 The Magicians Nephew as Aslan

2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Miranda Priestly

2025 Mamma Mia! 3 as Donna Sheridan

2025 Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep

2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self

2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self

2024 Schindler Space Architect as Narrator (voice)

2024 Escape from Extinction: Rewilding as Narrator (voice)

2022 Sell/Buy/Date Executive Producer

2021 Don't Look Up as President Orlean

2021 Dear Elizabeth as Elizabeth Bishop

2021 Stanislavski: Lust for Life as Self

2020 Let Them All Talk as Alice Hughes

2020 The Prom as Dee Dee Allen

2020 In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Meryl Streep

2020 Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2020 Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Narrator (voice)

2019 Little Women as Aunt March

2019 Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self

2019 The Laundromat as Ellen Martin / Elena

2019 Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self (archive footage)

2019 This Changes Everything as Self

2019 Museum Town as Narrator (voice)

2018 Mary Poppins Returns as Cousin Topsy

2018 We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World as Self

2018 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)

2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael

2018 Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary as Narrator (voice)

2018 Every Act of Life as Maurine McElroy (voice)

2017 The Post as Kay Graham

2017 The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence

2017 Five Came Back as Narrator (voice)

2017 The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits as Self

2017 100 Years as Narrator (voice)

2016 Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins

2016 Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray as Elizabeth Murray (voice)

2016 Starring Austin Pendleton as Self

2016 Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self

2015 Suffragette as Emmeline Pankhurst

2015 Shout Gladi Gladi as Narrator (voice)

2015 Everything Is Copy as Self

2015 Emotional Uncertainties as Self Thanks

2015 Ricki and the Flash as Ricki Rendazzo

2015 Auschwitz as Narrator (voice)

2014 Into the Woods as Witch

2014 The Concert for Valor as Self

2014 The Giver as Chief Elder

2014 The Homesman as Altha Carter

2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2013 August: Osage County as Violet Weston

2013 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self

2013 Girl Rising as Narrator - Ethiopia (voice)

2013 A Fierce Green Fire as Narrator (voice)

2012 Radioman as Self

2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)

2012 Hope Springs as Kay

2012 Joe Papp in Five Acts as Self

2012 To the Arctic 3D as Narrator

2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)

2011 The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher

2011 Wings of Life as Narrator (voice)

2010 Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Jennie

2010 Sky Island as (voice)

2009 It's Complicated as Jane Adler

2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Felicity Fox (voice)

2009 Julie & Julia as Julia Child

2009 Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self

2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self

2008 Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self

2008 Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

2008 Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan

2008 An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' as Self

2008 Theater of War as Self

2008 Dark Matter as Joanna Silver

2008 Ribbon of Sand as Narrator (voice)

2007 Lions for Lambs as Janine Roth

2007 Rendition as Corrine Whitman

2007 Evening as Lila Ross

2006 Hurricane on the Bayou as Narrator (voice)

2006 The Ant Bully as Queen (voice)

2006 The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly

2006 A Prairie Home Companion as Yolanda Johnson

2006 The Music of Regret as The Woman

2006 Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self

2005 Stolen Childhoods as Narrator (voice)

2005 Karen Blixen: Out of This World as Self - Host

2005 Prime as Lisa Metzger

2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Josephine Anwhistle

2004 The Manchurian Candidate as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)

2004 Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen as Self

2003 Stuck on You as Meryl Streep (uncredited)

2002 The Hours as Clarissa Vaughan

2002 Adaptation. as Susan Orlean

2002 New York at the Movies as Narrator (voice)

2002 There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self

2001 Vermeer Master of Light as Narrator (voice)

2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Blue Mecha (voice)

2001 Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' as Self

2000 A Song of Africa as Self

1999 Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait as Narrator (voice)

1999 Music of the Heart as Roberta

1999 Chrysanthemum as Narrator (voice)

1998 One True Thing as Kate Gulden

1998 Dancing at Lughnasa as Kate Mundy

1997 ...First Do No Harm as Lori Reimuller Executive Producer

1996 Marvin's Room as Lee Wakefield Lacker

1996 Before and After as Carolyn Ryan

1995 The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson

1995 The Living Sea as Narrator (voice)

1994 The River Wild as Gail Hartman

1994 An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet as Self - Host

1993 The House of the Spirits as Clara del Valle Trueba

1992 Death Becomes Her as Madeline Ashton Menville

1991 Age 7 in America as Narrator (voice)

1991 Defending Your Life as Julia

1991 Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member

1990 Postcards from the Edge as Suzanne Vale

1990 The Earth Day Special as Concerned Citizen

1989 She-Devil as Mary Fisher

1988 Evil Angels as Lindy Chamberlain

1987 Ironweed as Helen Archer

1986 Heartburn as Rachel

1985 Out of Africa as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen

1985 Plenty as Susan Traherne

1984 Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit as Narrator (voice)

1984 Falling in Love as Molly Gilmore

1983 Silkwood as Karen Silkwood

1982 Sophie's Choice as Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski

1982 Still of the Night as Brooke Reynolds

1982 Alice at the Palace as Alice

1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah / Anna

1981 Kiss Me, Petruchio as Katherine

1979 Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer

1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan as Karen Traynor

1979 Uncommon Women and Others as Leilah

1979 Manhattan as Jill

1978 The Deer Hunter as Linda

1977 Julia as Anne Marie

1977 The Deadliest Season as Sharon Miller

1977 Secret Service as Edith Varney

1975 Everybody Rides the Carousel as Stage 6 (voice)

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6.75 Romance 22

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6.49 Fantasy 8

6.48 Documentary 46

6.48 Adventure 7

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6.41 Thriller 6

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